Tag Archive | "SOS"

Stat of the Day: Sagarin Strength of Schedule ratings (2000-2008)

Friday, July 10, 2009

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2009 ACC Strength of Schedule

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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It’s time once again to look and see how unbalanced conference schedules affected the ACC season. This is our fourth year with a 16-game conference schedule in a 12-team conference. Our previous looks are listed below, but some of the tables no longer look quite as nice as they did when [...]

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OTR: Predict Pack’s ACC Record (with bonus imbalanced schedule stats)

Friday, January 9, 2009

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It’s that time of year again!  Time for you to go ‘On the Record’ with your Wolfpack perspectives and knowledge. State opens the season tomorrow with an extremely difficult task on the road at Clemson (we’ve got your pre-game discussion)  And, the schedule doesn’t necessarily get THAT much easier.  You can view the imbalanced nature of [...]

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Stat of the Day – BBall SOS

Friday, August 8, 2008

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Did you know that the average out of conference strength of the schedule for the past six college basketball national champions is 150?

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Series with Marquette & other dates (Updated 7/25)

Friday, July 25, 2008

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Link MU and NC State have agreed in principle to a home-and-home series beginning this season at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. The series had been in the works for the past month or so, with NC State working behind the scenes to move a guarantee game in order to accomodate MU. Having recently been able to [...]

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Non-Conference Gets Upgrade for ‘09, ‘10, ‘11 (Updated)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Those looking for tough out-of-conference scheduling need look no further than January 3, 2009 when NC State comes down to Gainesville to pay me a visit in a showdown with the Florida Gators. Of course we have yet to see how the conference schedule pans out, but most likely this will be the “tune-up” game [...]

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ACC Strength of Schedule

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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If you’re new around here, this will be the third year that we’ve examined the ACC regular season schedules to see who got the easier/harder regular-season schedules. In the aftermath of ACC expansion and unbalanced schedules, it’s always been obvious that the schedules will vary in difficulty and I was curious to see [...]

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Strength of Schedule is in the Eye of the Beholder

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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What was Les Miles thinking? In what is perhaps the biggest off-season coaching blunder since Ed Orgeron named Brent Schaeffer his starting QB six months before he stepped on campus, Miles is picking a fight with USC before the season starts. Even as an LSU fan, I can’t condone his tirade. However, in a [...]

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OOC Strength of Schedule

Sunday, April 1, 2007

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UPDATED 4/1/2007 @ 17:00 (Scroll to Bottom) Since this is the third time that I’ve documented the OOC strength of schedule for the ACC, I couldn’t come up with anything new and interesting to put into an introduction. But I can point new-comers to the first two entries on OOC SOS and especially to [...]

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Conference SOS

Sunday, March 5, 2006

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As soon as ACC decided to go to an unbalanced basketball schedule, it was obvious that some teams would get “harder�? schedules and some would get “easier�? ones. So now the time has come to try and figure out which is which. I decided to compile the ACC wins by each team’s [...]

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